Golden Celebrity

Ellen DeGeneres has begun to soften on the admirably hard-line stance she took on behalf of Hollywood’s striking writers: On today’s show (taped earlier in the week) she still refused to do a monologue, but has migrated back to the mark where she typically begins each broadcast. Still, she continues to cross the line, raising [...]

What better way to celebrate Day 5 of the writers strike than by trawling Craigslist–the one place you can find a couch, a job, and a lunchtime quickie within minutes–to see what kinds of opportunities might have arisen from the wreckage:
· Studio executives who failed to get the stockpiling memo: It’s not too late. Listing [...]

In these troubling times, we know that we can always depend on this week’s sponsors for comfort, many of whom aren’t currently too distracted by the picketers screaming outside their office windows to give us a hug whenever we need one. If you’d like to advertise on Defamer and become our emotional rock, see this [...]

· The writers strike could result in a windfall for Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who are reportedly in talks with NBC for the acquisition of blogtastic new online series Quarterlife, which is scheduled to premiere on the MySpaces on Sunday. If the alleged deal should fall through, forward-thinking network president Ben Silverman will announce [...]

Michael Jackson was in a far different place when the gates of Neverland Ranch first swung open in 1988: “Bad” had spent a record-breaking year riding the top of the charts, Captain Eo was still thrilling children who marveled at how they their space-voyaging pop hero was practically reaching out to grab them, and the [...]